Event Title
Poster: Exercise as Punishment: Teachers' and Coaches' Perspectives
Location
Moakley Atrium
Start Time
12-5-2010 4:05 PM
End Time
12-5-2010 5:00 PM
Description
Although the use of exercise as punishment/behavior management appears to be pervasive among coaches, teachers, and fitness professionals, this phenomenon is just beginning to be studied. Our previous study of physical education majors found that 91% of their coaches and 43% of their physical education teachers used exercise as a form of punishment/behavior management. In the current study, we examined the attitudes, beliefs and intentions regarding the use of exercise as a form of punishment or behavior management of coaches and teachers. Surveys based on the Theory of Planned Behavior were administered at a state health, physical education, recreation and dance convention; 189 individuals completed the surveys. Although more than 60% of the survey respondents indicated that they had used exercise as a form of punishment/behavior management in the past, as a whole, the group had relatively neutral attitudes about exercise as punishment and neutral intentions regarding future use.
Poster: Exercise as Punishment: Teachers' and Coaches' Perspectives
Moakley Atrium
Although the use of exercise as punishment/behavior management appears to be pervasive among coaches, teachers, and fitness professionals, this phenomenon is just beginning to be studied. Our previous study of physical education majors found that 91% of their coaches and 43% of their physical education teachers used exercise as a form of punishment/behavior management. In the current study, we examined the attitudes, beliefs and intentions regarding the use of exercise as a form of punishment or behavior management of coaches and teachers. Surveys based on the Theory of Planned Behavior were administered at a state health, physical education, recreation and dance convention; 189 individuals completed the surveys. Although more than 60% of the survey respondents indicated that they had used exercise as a form of punishment/behavior management in the past, as a whole, the group had relatively neutral attitudes about exercise as punishment and neutral intentions regarding future use.